From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 3.4.0 (2014-02-07) on aws-us-west-2-korg-lkml-1.web.codeaurora.org X-Spam-Level: X-Spam-Status: No, score=-3.9 required=3.0 tests=BAYES_00,DKIM_SIGNED, DKIM_VALID,DKIM_VALID_AU,HEADER_FROM_DIFFERENT_DOMAINS,MAILING_LIST_MULTI, SPF_HELO_NONE,SPF_PASS autolearn=no autolearn_force=no version=3.4.0 Received: from mail.kernel.org (mail.kernel.org [198.145.29.99]) by smtp.lore.kernel.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id DE00EC2D0E4 for ; Tue, 17 Nov 2020 15:22:06 +0000 (UTC) Received: from vger.kernel.org (vger.kernel.org [23.128.96.18]) by mail.kernel.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 4BB812065C for ; Tue, 17 Nov 2020 15:22:06 +0000 (UTC) Authentication-Results: mail.kernel.org; dkim=pass (2048-bit key) header.d=infradead.org header.i=@infradead.org header.b="WCgi4ptw" Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1731997AbgKQPVo (ORCPT ); Tue, 17 Nov 2020 10:21:44 -0500 Received: from lindbergh.monkeyblade.net ([23.128.96.19]:49800 "EHLO lindbergh.monkeyblade.net" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1730553AbgKQPVo (ORCPT ); Tue, 17 Nov 2020 10:21:44 -0500 Received: from merlin.infradead.org (merlin.infradead.org [IPv6:2001:8b0:10b:1231::1]) by lindbergh.monkeyblade.net (Postfix) with ESMTPS id 2E84AC0613CF; Tue, 17 Nov 2020 07:21:44 -0800 (PST) DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; q=dns/txt; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=infradead.org; s=merlin.20170209; h=In-Reply-To:Content-Type:MIME-Version: References:Message-ID:Subject:Cc:To:From:Date:Sender:Reply-To: Content-Transfer-Encoding:Content-ID:Content-Description; bh=Enbb0xaD9p+aI9prwRGmvNBILp41HXLOKQP0KddruwQ=; b=WCgi4ptwo02ENrFbjshvIKy+3R cwwg6dj5qCz2wTDVPXDJGB80peZ5LQDZshRaV9hYHnGRcBm05j+5Ktf4UnNsjQZ0iuFhsDJ5JC9bO SI2s71lnTRYRYoKF//qlNSq6oVUE+YDV4pwNJ5mGBJGgMcd2ab0fA2VFi+bQlviv88a3oo+GG6TTD GcEx+N/wlMSZe+0HVSf4OgMLWfU/w8vogVlU5y+cmswaUBtGpHue+wdHMv+oQ7fnrxO9pdGD8neIv oSsxdFpgk85M+OgocOLlhBI1NB4N57jsFvadlndoBDD68uAql4wHT682EO3WZBUvgtNK/2cnE5oY8 gpKsImYg==; Received: from j217100.upc-j.chello.nl ([24.132.217.100] helo=noisy.programming.kicks-ass.net) by merlin.infradead.org with esmtpsa (Exim 4.92.3 #3 (Red Hat Linux)) id 1kf2na-0002aE-En; Tue, 17 Nov 2020 15:21:38 +0000 Received: from hirez.programming.kicks-ass.net (hirez.programming.kicks-ass.net [192.168.1.225]) (using TLSv1.2 with cipher ECDHE-RSA-AES256-GCM-SHA384 (256/256 bits)) (Client did not present a certificate) by noisy.programming.kicks-ass.net (Postfix) with ESMTPS id 4F419301959; Tue, 17 Nov 2020 16:21:35 +0100 (CET) Received: by hirez.programming.kicks-ass.net (Postfix, from userid 1000) id 2EFD120116725; Tue, 17 Nov 2020 16:21:35 +0100 (CET) Date: Tue, 17 Nov 2020 16:21:35 +0100 From: Peter Zijlstra To: Shuah Khan Cc: Matthew Wilcox , corbet@lwn.net, keescook@chromium.org, gregkh@linuxfoundation.org, linux-doc@vger.kernel.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Subject: Re: [PATCH v2 01/13] seqnum_ops: Introduce Sequence Number Ops Message-ID: <20201117152135.GO3121392@hirez.programming.kicks-ass.net> References: <26cbcc431be5e3ab7d8e0e881d522605a27b1312.1605287778.git.skhan@linuxfoundation.org> <20201113210327.GJ17076@casper.infradead.org> <20201116144914.GE3121378@hirez.programming.kicks-ass.net> <20201116145850.GC3121429@hirez.programming.kicks-ass.net> <050d5555-f8b4-f54d-e13c-149815b1b64c@linuxfoundation.org> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <050d5555-f8b4-f54d-e13c-149815b1b64c@linuxfoundation.org> Precedence: bulk List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org On Tue, Nov 17, 2020 at 07:50:15AM -0700, Shuah Khan wrote: > On 11/16/20 7:58 AM, Peter Zijlstra wrote: > > On Mon, Nov 16, 2020 at 03:49:14PM +0100, Peter Zijlstra wrote: > > > On Fri, Nov 13, 2020 at 09:03:27PM +0000, Matthew Wilcox wrote: > > > > I think almost all of this information should go into atomic_ops.rst > > > > > > No, we should delete atomic_ops.rst. It's bitrotted nonsense. The only > > > > Sod it, I'll just queue a deletion. That'll stop people from trying to > > update the trainwreck. > > > > Please don't delete the document. This is one of the documents that has > the information to make decisions about the api usage. > > atomic_t information is spread out in various Doc directories. It should > be consolidated, instead of removing files. It is gone.. Please read Documentation/atomic_*.txt if you want to know about atomic_t or bitops.